ROANOKE, Va. – One of the most dreaded parts of being in a hospital for most patients is needles. This is especially true if you need your blood drawn multiple times during a stay, which is often the ...

Beyond the myriad complications that come with diabetes, patients have to additionally put up with regular blood sugar testing – which involves either multiple pin pricks a day to draw blood or ...

Developing an alternative approach to blood glucose monitoring that does not rely on lancets and pinpricks has been a primary goal of diabetes device R&D in recent years. Contributing to this effort, ...

Almost all new parents go through it: the distress of hearing their child scream at the doctor’s office. They endure the emotional torture of having to hold their child down as the clinician sticks ...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WSBT) — You no longer need to be scared of needles, because Memorial Hospital is rolling out needle-less blood draws. This new technology allows healthcare workers to only stick a ...

Think preschoolers don’t know geography? Drive ’em to the pediatrician’s office. Starting around age 2, they’re crying before you make the final turn into the parking lot — they remember where they ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – Some patients at Moffitt Cancer Center will no longer have to deal with as many pokes and prods from needles thanks to new technology. Those being treated for cancer in in-patient ...

UK-based blood testing company Thriva has joined forces with medical device manufacturer Tasso to use their innovative blood testing technology to tackle needle phobia, a condition that affects at ...

Not-for-profit healthcare organisation Carilion Clinic is set to provide needle-free blood draws to patients leveraging Becton, Dickinson and Company’s (BD) blood collection device. This initiative to ...